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>vii) Identification of the frequencies on which the part 27 600 MHz band licensee has commenced operations; (viii) Call sign. (11) Location of health care facilities operating WMTS net
works on channel 37 (608-614 MHz): (i) Name and address of the health care facility; (ii) Name and address of a contact person; <span c
lass="paragraph-hierarchy">(iii) Phone number of a contact person; (iv) Email address of a contact person; (v) Latitude and longitude coordinates referenced to Nor
th American Datum 1983 (NAD 83) that define the perimeter of each facility. If several health care facilities using 608-614 MHz wireless medical telemetry equipment are located in close proximity, it is permissible to register a perimeter to protect all facilities in that cluster. (k) Commission requests for data....
"15.713(k)(1)">(1) A white space database administrator must provide to the Commission, upon request, any information contained in the database. (2) A white space database administrator must remove information from the database, upon direction, in writing, by the Commission. <p class
="indent-1" data-title="15.713(l)">(l) Security. The white space database shall employ protocols and procedures to ensure that all communications and interactions between the white space database and white space devices are accurate and secure and that unauthorized parties cannot access or alter the database or the li...
raph-hierarchy">(1) Communications between white space devices and white space databases, and between different white space databases, shall be secure to prevent corruption or unauthorized interception of data. A white space database shall be protected from unauthorized data input or alteration of stored data. (2) A...
FCC identification number supplied by a fixed, mobile, or personal/portable white space device is for a certified device and may not provide service to an uncertified device. (3) A white space database must not provide lists of available channels to uncertified white space devices for purposes of operation (it is ac...
t with white space devices to provide list of channels for operation). To implement this provision, a white space database administrator shall obtain a list of certified white space devices from the FCC Equipment Authorization System. [80 FR 73070, Nov. 23, 2015, as amended at 81 FR 4974, Jan. 29, 2016; <a href="http...
ralregister.gov/citation/82-FR-41559" class="fr-reference" data-reference="82 FR 41559">82 FR 41559, Sept. 1, 2017; 84 FR 34799, July 19, 2019; 86 FR 2295, Jan. 12, 2021; 88 FR 32692, May 22, 2023] <h
4 data-hierarchy-metadata='{"path":"/on/2024-04-11/title-47/section-15.714","citation":"47 CFR 15.714"}'>§ 15.714 White space database administration fees. (a) A white space database administrator may charge a fee for provision of lists of available channels to fixed, mobile, and personal/portable devices and for regi...
raph (a) applies to devices that operate in the TV bands, the 600 MHz service band, the 600 MHz duplex gap, and 608-614 MHz (channel 37). (b) A white space database administrator may charge a fee for provision of lists of available channels to wireless microphone users. (c<span class=
"paren">) The Commission, upon request, will review the fees and can require changes in those fees if they are found to be excessive. [80 FR 73070, Nov. 23, 2015, as amended at 84 FR 34799, July 19, 2019; 86 FR
2296, Jan. 12, 2021] § 15.715 White space database administrator. The Commission will designate one or more entities to administer the white space database(s). The Commission may, at its discretion, permit the functions of a white space database, such as a data repository, registration, and query services, to be di...
e for coordination of the overall functioning of a database and providing services to white space devices. Each database administrator designated by the Commission shall: (a) Maintain a database that contains the information described in § 15.713.
(b) Establish a process for acquiring and storing in the database necessary and appropriate information from the Commission's databases and synchronizing the database with the current Commission databases at least once a week to include newly licensed facilities or any changes to licensed facilities. (c) Establish a...
s and registering and including in the database facilities entitled to protection but not contained in a Commission database, including MVPD receive sites. (d) Establish a process for registering facilities where part 74 low power auxiliary stations are used on a regular basis. (e<span c
lass="paren">) Provide accurate lists of available channels and the corresponding maximum permitted power for each available channel to fixed, mobile, and personal/portable white space devices that submit to it the information required under § 15.713(e), (g), and (h) based on their geographic location and provide accur...
s of available channels and the corresponding maximum permitted power for each available channel to fixed, mobile, and Mode II devices requesting lists of available channels for Mode I devices. Database administrators may allow prospective operators of white space devices to query the database and determine whether the...
communications and interactions between the white space database and white space devices are accurate and secure and that unauthorized parties cannot access or alter the database or the list of available channels sent to a white space device consistent with the provisions of § 15.713(l). (g) Make its services availa...
ite space device users on a non-discriminatory basis. (h) Provide service for a five-year term. This term can be renewed at the Commission's discretion. (i) Respond in a timely manner to verify, correct and/or remove, as appropriate, data in the event th
at the Commission or a party brings claim of inaccuracies in the database to its attention. This requirement applies only to information that the Commission requires to be stored in the database. (j) Transfer its database along with the IP addresses and URLs used to access the database and list of registered fixed w...
or at the end of its term. It may charge a reasonable price for such conveyance. (k) The database must have functionality such that upon request from the Commission it can indicate that no channels are available when queried by a specific white space device or model of white space devices. (</s
pan>l) If more than one database is developed, the database administrators shall cooperate to develop a standardized process for providing on a daily basis or more often, as appropriate, the data collected for the facilities listed in § 15.713(b)(2) to all other white space databases to ensure consistency in the record...
tors are required to share the licensed microphone channel registration information to all other white space database administrators within 10 minutes of receiving each wireless microphone registration. (m) Provide a means to make publicly available all information the rules require the database to contain, includin...
formation provided by 600 MHz band licensees pursuant to § 15.713(j)(10)(v) and (vi) of this part shall not be made publicly available. (n) Establish procedures to allow part 27 600 MHz service licensees to upload the regist
ration information listed in § 15.713(j)(10) for areas where they have commenced operations, as defined in § 27.4 of this chapter, and to allow the removal and replacement of registration information in the database when corrections or updates are necessary. (o) Re
move from the database the registrations of fixed white space devices that have not checked the database for at least three months to update their channel lists. A database administrator may charge a new registration fee for a fixed white space device that is removed from the database under this provision but is later ...
ties where they operate WMTS networks on channel 37. (q) Establish procedures to allow unlicensed wireless microphone users in the 600 MHz band to register with the database and to provide lists of channels available for wireless microphones at a given location. [80 FR 73070, Nov
. 23, 2015, as amended at 81 FR 4975, Jan. 29, 2016; 86 FR 2296, Jan. 12, 2021; 87 FR 18993, Apr. 1, 2022] <h4 data-hierarchy-metadata='{"path":"/on/2024-04-11/title-47/section-15.717","citation":"47 CFR 15
.717"}'>§ 15.717 White space devices that rely on spectrum sensing. (a) Applications for certification. Parties may submit applications for certification of white space devices that rely solely on spectrum sensing to identify available channels. Devices authorized under this section must demonstrate with an extremely...
mbent radio services. (1) In addition to the procedures in subpart J of part 2 of this chapter, applicants shall comply with the following. (i) The application must include a
full explanation of how the device will protect incumbent authorized services against interference. (ii) Applicants must submit a pre-production device, identical to the device expected to be marketed. (2) The Commission will
follow the procedures below for processing applications pursuant to this section. (i) Applications will be placed on public notice for a minimum of 30 days for comments and 15 days for reply comments. Applicants may request that portions of their application remain confidential in accordance with § 0.459 of this chap...
clude proposed test procedures and methodologies. (ii) The Commission will conduct laboratory and field tests of the pre-production device. This testing will be conducted to evaluate proof of performance of the device, including characterization of its sensing capability and its interference potential. The testing w...
itle="15.717(a)(2)(iii)">(iii) Subsequent to the completion of testing, the Commission will issue by public notice, a test report including recommendations. The public notice will specify a minimum of 30 days for comments and, if any objections are received, an additional 15 days for reply comments. (b) <em class=...
ragraph-heading">Power limit for devices that rely on sensing. The white space device shall meet the requirements for personal/portable devices in this subpart except that it will be limited to a maximum EIRP of 50 mW per 6 megahertz of bandwidth on which the device operates and it does not have to comply with the req...
7/section-15.711#p-15.711(e)" class="cfr external">(e). Compliance with the detection threshold for spectrum sensing in § 15.717(c), although required, is not necessarily sufficient for demonstrating reliable interference avoidance. Once a device is certified, additional devices that are identical in electrical charact...
v> (c) Sensing requirements — (1) Detection threshold. (</spa
n>i) The required detection thresholds are: (A) ATSC digital TV signals: −114 dBm, averaged over a 6 MHz bandwidth; (B) NTSC analog TV signals: −114 dBm, averaged over a 100 kHz bandwidth; </
p> (C) Low power auxiliary, including wireless microphone, signals: −107 dBm, averaged over a 200 kHz bandwidth. (ii) The detection thresholds are referenced to an omnidirectional receive antenna with a gain of 0 dBi. If
a receive antenna with a minimum directional gain of less than 0 dBi is used, the detection threshold shall be reduced by the amount in dB that the minimum directional gain of the antenna is less than 0 dBi. Minimum directional gain shall be defined as the antenna gain in the direction and at the frequency that exhibi...
na with 0 dBi gain. (2) Channel availability check time. A white space device may start operating on a TV channel if no TV, wireless microphone or other low power auxiliary device signals above the detection threshold are detected within a minimum time interval of 30 seconds. <span class="para
graph-hierarchy">(3) In-service monitoring. A white space device must perform in-service monitoring of an operating channel at least once every 60 seconds. There is no minimum channel availability check time for in-service monitoring. (4) Channel move time. After a TV, wireless microphone
or other low power auxiliary device signal is detected on a white space device operating channel, all transmissions by the white space device must cease within two seconds.
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